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...humanitarian aid to other rogue nations like Zimbabwe. As with Burma, Robert Mugabe's regime stained China's international image; Beijing also fretted that unrest against the Mugabe government might spark local anger at Chinese interests. Chinese diplomats privately admit that Beijing fears that violent instability in Burma might threaten Beijing's investments - in October, with Burmese resentment of China soaring, gunmen fired on the Chinese consulate in Mandalay. Embargo commitments by those Asian giants would push the junta's other weapons suppliers to fall in line, or risk standing alone in their support for the generals...
...conclusion that the White House should draw from this data is obvious: the U.S. must stop encroaching in the internal affairs of other countries, except when they explicitly threaten our territorial integrity. Rather than justifying a crusade, the events of 9/11 underscored the need for caution and prudence in American foreign policy, neglected in forming the spurious links between Osama Bin Laden, Sadaam Hussein, and Weapons of Mass Destruction that justified the Iraq intervention...
...they want to kill me?" He held Ramos-Horta and Gusmão partly to blame for the Same raid. "Ramos-Horta was in the meeting with Xanana when they agreed to do this thing," he said. "What threat do I make for this nation? Which civilian do I threaten or kill? I have a right also to defend myself." He vowed never to lay down his arms. "Who does this gun belong to? It doesn't belong to Xanana or Horta. This belongs to the people of this country. I'm a citizen of this country and under...
...Back at the end of September, after Dobson and his disciples had their private meeting to publicly threaten a third party run if the G.O.P. went with a social liberal like Giuliani, I asked Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' political ambassador, what was the problem with Huckabee, since Land understands these weather systems better than most...
...issue and the loss of thousands of dollars in advertising—not to mention the loss of news to the student body. Regardless of the infighting between the press and the government, disagreements should be restricted to the editorial page and meetings between parties; it should never threaten the ability of the paper to continue its work. A free and uninhibited press is needed to check elected student officials and administrations on campus. But lately, the notion that a student newspaper should be allowed to act as functionally independent organ of the student body has been assaulted. The withholding...